Nazi Zombies: Portable is a free and open source Call of Duty: Zombies demake

I'm surprised I hadn't heard of this one before! A few developers have been building Nazi Zombies: Portable, a Call of Duty: Zombies demake powered by various enhanced forks of the Quake engine. What's a demake? It's basically remaking another game in an older style.

The developer explains: "The game itself is feature-equivalent with Call of Duty: World at War on a generic level. Gameplay components are implemented with minor parity differences. Most World at War maps and their unique features are not yet represented. Various small additions and changes from Call of Duty: Black Ops are present as a means of gameplay smoothing, but not on a wide scale. NZ:P is, first and foremost, a Call of Duty: World at War remake."

Pictured - Nazi Zombies: Portable on Linux

If you've not played Call of Duty Zombies and have no idea what is going on: in simple terms it's a Zombie survival wave-shooter mode. You start off with a simple handgun, and gradually gain money from taking down the walkers to buy up new weapons and access new areas. I tried it out for a bit today and it feels pretty good actually, they really nailed the vibe of it and the mechanics.

Fun to see such a project exist. And perhaps with a little GamingOnLinux shout-out it can find a new audience, and who knows maybe some development help. Would love to see this one keep expanding.

See more on the GitHub and official site. You can even try it in the browser. It's also on itch.io.